Was this maybe part of the Pentathlon?
Supposed to demonstrate a military scout's ability to get a message back to
the generals ?
Soldier had to do fencing, pistol shooting,
swimming running and riding, what ever it took to get through. Riding to
be on whatever horse they could find on the way.
Truly in the spirit of the first
Olympics?
I think I read they were removing the
equestrian part of this event??
There was a competition where the
riders had to pull which horse they were going to ride out of a hat. They
then had to compete in 3 or 4 events, cross-country and jumping were the two I
saw and it was interesting. I wish I hadn?t taped over the events because there
was this young woman from China who had a very large
uncontrollable horse (to her). She fell off once got back on and kept on going.
It was like the keystone cops but that girl had
grit!